Dr Andrew Kayiira
I have just had a conversation with my good friend and a very brave journalist Mr Richard Wanambwa who covered the Police Senior Police party at Naguru.
Mr Wanambwa has permitted me to quote him to wit that Gen Kayihura alerted top Police management he was not going to stay with them for long for the available information is that the assault on security installations was is eminent.
I agree with Gen Kale Kaihura on his threat assesment.
Gen Kale belongs to the club of Maj Victor Bwana and Col Mishambi.
These were serious people.
Indeed the attack is possible and eminent.
How did we get to this?
Late this year I was invited by Gen Kayihura in his farm 45 kms north of Lyantonde and we discussed both the primary and secondary contradictions in the NRM system.
I was happy he had extended an arm for dialogue.
He even allowed me access to Police training wing at Kabalye and I witnessed his capacity building strategy.
President Museveni came over and went through his usual narrative of Uganda’s bottlenecks.
I still found their analysis of the situation flawed for their belief in reliance on use of brute force or threat of use of force.
This is a secondary contradiction for force and democracies are never complimentary.
Dialogue is a sina-quonon to the survival a democracy.
And this is where the death of Dr Kayiira becomes critical.
Dr Kayira was the leader of Uganda Freedom Movement.( UFM)
UFM of Kayiira and FEDEMO of Capt Nkwanga joined NRA and made the capture of Kampala smooth.
Capt Jack Sabiiti then of UFM and now FDC MP Rukiga had objected to the peace deal with Museveni’s NRA.
Hon Jack Sabiiti opposed handing over UFM guns to Museveni.
Dr Kayiira over ruled Capt Jack Sabiiti and ordered UFM to surrender all the guns.
Dr Kayiira was appointed a cabinet minister.
Hon Jack Sabiiti prepared to go back to the bush and he indeed went back to the bush only to surrender to Lt Col Kiiza Besigye.
Dr Kayiira and FEDEMO had embraced dialogue with NRA and Museveni.
Later president Museveni summoned Dr Kayiira, late Baraki Kiirya, Capt Jack Sabiiti, Poul Kagame now president of Rwanda etc and put it to Dr Kayiira that UFM hadn’t handed in all the guns and that Museveni’s informer insisted he knew where the UFM guns had been hidden.
The meeting agreed that Musevei’s informer leads a joint team of Kayiira and Museveni to the said site and they dig out the guns.
Im advised President Kagame led the joint team.
The informer showed them the site, they dug in and there was no trace of any guns.
The meeting reconvened for the report on the said excavation and Museveni rejected the report arguing the boy had been intimidated.
Later Dr Kayiira was executed.
Most FEDEMO and UFM operatives were eliminated in the North and Eastern Uganda.
I put it to Gen Kayiihura in our dialogue at his farm, that it was this failed experiment at genuine dialogue and reconciliation that was going to plunge Uganda into another round of a vicious war.
I put it to Gen Kayiihura and would still put before any other individual in NRM that NRM and NRA lack a superior qualitative method to resolve complex contradictions qualitatively.
The only available method is dismissals, isolation, blackmail, katebe, subjugation etc.
All these emit negative energy.
NRM/A is alien to genuine dialogue and reconciliation.
You hear of nugatory statements like “ take him to Mzee/ Museveni for rehabilitation”.
If you have a different view then you are indisplined, lacking in political clarity, poor/broke and desirous of a job and therefore for curtailment through operative combination.
I put it to Gen Kale Kayihura that moderate elements in the various insurgency groups, the LRA, ADF, UPA, UPDA, Rescue Front, West Nile Bank Front etc were allowed to surrender with amnesty and most of them were later killed and or jailed under other flesh charges.
Those who were deployed in security were later killed in mysterious circumstances.
Atleast they were never accorded quality security.
Some Sheiks who had embraced dialogue were recently executed.
And this is a big problem.
Why?
Those who stayed in the bush/ who had misgivings on the Museveni mode of dialogue are wholly radicals and have had a stint on and analyzed the obvious outcomes of Museveni dialogue.
Ofcourse it’s getting late to construct a superior and qualitative superstructure to deliver a qualitative conversation that would resolve the apparent contradictions qualitatively.
In case war breaks out, we will then have a double complex task of managing this armed conflict commanded by radicals on the one hand and the NRA/ UPDF who are only exposed to fighting the weak with a deceptive offer of dialogue and reconciliation.
Amama Mbabazi and Gen Tinyefuza who are the architects of this mode of the deceptive dialogue and reconciliation are now its victims. They took part in most critical decisions relating to some killings. I suggest we require them to tell the country the truth, and honest truth. This could be a firm foundation for future National healing and reconciliation.
